Gregorian calendar

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Etymology

Named after Pope Gregory XIII who decreed it should be used.

Proper noun

Gregorian calendar

1. The calendar currently used in the western world. It replaced the Julian calendar and was devised to halt the slow drift of the vernal equinox towards earlier in the year.

Translations

calendar used in the western world

• Arabic: تقويم ميلادي m (taqwiim milaadiy)
• Catalan: calendari gregorià m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公曆, 公历 (zh) (Gōnglì)

• Danish: den gregorianske kalender c
• Dutch: gregoriaanse kalender m
• Esperanto: gregoria kalendaro
• Finnish: gregoriaaninen kalenteri (fi)
• French: calendrier grégorien (fr) m
• German: Gregorianischer Kalender m
• Greek: Γρηγοριανό Ημερολόγιο n (Grigorianó Imerológio)
• Hindi: ग्रेगोरी कैलेंडर (grēgōriyan kailēṇḍar)
• Japanese: グレゴリオ暦 (Guregorio-reki)

• Korean: 그레고리오력 (Geuregorio-ryeok)
• Macedonian: Грегоријанскиот календар m (Gregorijanskiot kalendar)
• Maltese: kalendarju gregorjan m
• Norwegian: gregoriansk kalender m
• Portuguese: calendário gregoriano m
• Romanian: calendar gregorian n
• Russian: григорианский календарь m (grigoriánskij kalendár’)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: грегоријански календар m

  Roman: gregorijanski kalendar m

• Spanish: calendario gregoriano (es) m
• Turkish: Gregoryen takvimi, miladi takvim

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) Gregorian calendar month; January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December ^{(Category: en:Gregorian calendar months)}